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Alex Patzina @patzinaalex.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Come to beautiful Bamberg and present your work on education and health! We will also have an interesting keynote! @jacquelinekroh.bsky.social @neugebauer.bsky.social #soziologie #health #medical_sociology #education #inequality

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Sabrina J. Mayer @sabrinajmayer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Looking for a postdoc for our research project on Negational Social Identities!

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Bastian Betthaeuser @betthaeuser.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

📣 Join our ERC LEARN Research Team at CRIS/Sciences Po, Paris, to investigate how major disruptive events affect children's educational development. Apply by 3 December: ⭐️Doctoral Researcher / PhD candidate drive.google.com/file/d/1DT8i... ⭐️Postdoctoral Researcher drive.google.com/file/d/1AiRo...

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Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

This paper shows that the claim made by the “Brainworm in Chief”—that Tylenol (for Europeans: Paracetamol!) causes ADHD or anything else—is nonsense! That someone had to do this, and couldnt do more meaningful stuff, causes pain for me! www.nber.org/papers/w35873

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In Utero Exposure to the 1982 Tylenol Recall and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

interesting working paper on effect of wealth taxation, in Norway 2021-2025. There is outmigration going on at the very top, but not much reduction in tax revenue. Also, no effect of startups and economic activity. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

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Tobias Rüttenauer @ruettenauer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

After extensive qualitative fieldwork (n=1), I can report that this is a pretty great job 🧑‍🎓😀 If you work on #Climate, #Environment and #CausalInference, I highly recommend applying for this Assistant Professor position @sriucl.bsky.social 👇 🚨Deadline: October 30

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Alex Patzina @patzinaalex.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New paper with @mcollischon.bsky.social & @alinaschmitz.bsky.social ! Does upward educational mobility improve life satisfaction? And do its benefits change as people age? We use 39 waves of German panel data to study mobility patterns across the life course. Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss... 🧵1/4

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Katja Möhring 🦁 @katjamoe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Wusstest Du, dass ein AfD-Politiker bei KIKA ungefiltert zu Wort kam? Nun ist ein zweites Interview geplant. Jetzt unterzeichnen ✍️ und teilen: Keine Rechtsextreme im Kinderkanal! weact.campact.de/petitions/ki...

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KIKA: Keine Bühne für Rechtsextreme bei logo!

Wusstest Du, dass ein AfD-Politiker bei KIKA ungefiltert zu Wort kam? Nun ist ein zweites Interview geplant. Jetzt unterzeichnen ✍️ und teilen: Keine Rechtsextreme im Kinderkanal!

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Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.eurosky.social · 28/08/2026

#causality bubble, assemble

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

LLMs reduce the cost of writing. They do not reduce the cost of having something worth writing.

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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Trust in scientists depends not only on evidence, but also on perceived political identity. That’s one reason I believe academic associations like AAUP should avoid partisan endorsements and protect institutional neutrality. Evidence from our experiment: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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Public perception of scientists: Experimental evidence on the role of sociodemographic, partisan, and professional characteristics

Previous research shows that public trust in scientists is often bound up with the messages that they convey and the context in which they communicate. However, in the current study, we examine how th...

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Anna Zamberlan @zamberlanna.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Alisia Bauer and I ran a cross-national survey experiment to test whether name-based status and gender cues actually work as intended, and what else rides along with them—especially age and ethnicity. Results are now out in @actasociologica.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Alex Patzina @patzinaalex.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Mimics are always in the offing. Bacharach/Gambetta (2001) or Dinniman (2026)?

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Alex Patzina @patzinaalex.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The trigger points concept applies perfectly to sports: another German football failure, and suddenly it says something about the whole country. Years of elite-level German basketball, including EuroBasket and World Cup titles? Somehow, that never gets projected back onto Germany.

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Katrin Auspurg @kauspurg.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

There’s been a lot of buzz around the Borjas/Breznau (2026) paper (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and potential ideological bias in research. We took a closer look at the data. Could there be a "bias in bias research"? Here is what we found: www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

ONE WEEK LEFT TO SUBMIT. See you in Vienna!

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Nils Witte @niwitte.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

"Umfrage: Zwei Drittel der Deutschen denken über einen Job im Ausland nach" So überschreibt Indeed eine Pressemitteilung vom 22. Juni 2026. Viele Medien berichten über die Ergebnisse (u.a. dpa, Spiegel, tagesschau, handelsblatt). Wie seriös ist die Studie? Ein Thread 🧵

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IAB @iabnews.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

🏆Unsere Forscherin Dr. Kerstin Ostermann erhält den Preis des „European Consortium for Sociological Research“ für die drittbeste Abschlussarbeit in der empirischen #Soziologie. Herzlichen Glückwunsch zu dieser tollen Leistung und der verdienten Auszeichnung kostermann.bsky.social! (1)

Kerstin Ostermann steht lachend in Dublin auf dem Gelände des Trinity College und zeigt ihre Urkunde in einer roten Mappe. Im Hintergrund sind historische Gebäude des College zu sehen. Frau Ostermann trägt eine schwarze Hose, ein blau-weiß gestreiftes T-Shirt und eine graue Strickjacke.

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Jan Brülle @janbruelle.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Still a few days left to submit your FReDA/pairfam/GGS papers for the FReDA User Conference in Cologne, 26-27 November

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

In Engish, turkeys are named after the country Turkiye. In Turkiye, they're called "Hindi" named after India. In Hindi, they're sometimes called "Peru" named after...Peru. In Peru they're called "pavo" named after peacocks. Peacocks don't have a word for turkeys.

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Danbischof @danbischof.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I like this @thejop.bsky.social : "We are now implementing a system in which the editorial team has the right to not consider submissions from authors who have failed to review for the journal three or more times, when invited to do so by the editorial team."

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Tom VanHeuvelen @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

lol, what!? One of the weirder Social Forces book reviews ever I've seen. Going out on a limb and guessing Wimer has a negative view of Kenworthy's book?

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Alex Patzina @patzinaalex.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

it didn’t take much to talk me into the b sides 😅

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Julian Schmitz @jschmitzleipzig.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Dass digitale Medien pauschal für Kinder unter 3 schädlich sind ist evidendloser Unsinn. Studien zeigen sogar positive Zusammenhänge bei Bildungsinhalten und gemeinsamem Schauen. Viel wichtiger wäre Armutsbekämpfung. www.zeit.de/digital/2026...

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Alex Patzina @patzinaalex.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

You think you know the artist by heart, and then you discover something you just missed, which is beautiful!! Still wondering how this could have happened, but in the end it doesn’t matter 😃 youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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BBC Sessions - YouTube

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

One month left to submit

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Tobias Rüttenauer @ruettenauer.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

📢 Open positions! I’m recruiting 2 postdocs + 3 PhD positions at C³S, @goetheuni.bsky.social in #ClimateJustice, environmental inequality, #Demography & #ComputationalSocialScience 🌍📊💻 3–4 years + strong support for training🎒 Deadline: 23 June 2026 More: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen...

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Ansgar Hudde @hudde.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

📝New preprint: A golden era for open-ended questions? Using LLMs for text classification tasks ➡️Advanced LLMs outperform student assistants in text coding accuracy. We provide replication files & practical guidance for applied social scientists. Feedback welcome! 🧵 osf.io/preprints/so...

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Patrick Präg @ppraeg.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Bad news for capricorns: they earn less than other zodiac signs Good news for capricorns: it's not due to their zodiac sign

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

What can we learn from automating an entire quantitative social science paper, from prompt to finished product? Thread about ongoing work with @natewilmers.bsky.social 1/12 Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Join us in Vienna to discuss inequality, economic mobility & labor markets! With @franziskadbacher.bsky.social and @izmartinez86.bsky.social I'm stoked to announce this workshop, keynotes by @emilynix100.bsky.social and @natewilmers.bsky.social. Nov 19-20, submit by June 30: www.wu.ac.at/ineq/ws26

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Up to 23 percent of papers published in conference proceedings with a leading publisher had coauthorships for sale at some point

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Valentina Di Stasio @distasioval.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Great to see our scoping review from the ERC-funded TARGET project published! The field has mainly looked at the drivers of discrimination attributions in isolation, and with little attention to between-respondent heterogeneity. We call for multi-dimensional designs and multi-actor comparisons.

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IAB @iabnews.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Islamist terrorist attacks often trigger negative #stereotypes toward men perceived to be of Middle Eastern origin. But do they affect #employment — and if so, when? 💡Using linked employer–employee data from #Germany, IAB-researchers Malte Reichelt and Christoph Müller address this question.(1/9)

Research Article in American Sociological Review by Malte Reichelt and Christoph Müller: Salience Shifts and Managerial Discretion: How Periods of Islamist Terrorism Affect the Employment of Middle Eastern Men

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Lisa-Marie Duletzki @lisadu.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I’m very happy to share that my first paper has been accepted for publication 🎉 Together with my great co-author Nayeon Lim we look at early public childcare in Germany. More details and the paper link below 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Can early public childcare reduce child penalties? Evidence from Germany

This paper studies the effects of public childcare expansion for children under age three in Germany on mothers’ child penalties. Exploiting county-le…

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Alex Patzina @patzinaalex.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

It’s always a pleasure to collaborate with @mcollischon.bsky.social !!

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Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.eurosky.social · 17/04/2026

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Regine Riphahn "Unsere Forscher bekommen eine Lupe, wo man international mit Mikroskopen arbeitet. Unsere Forscher bekommen ein Fernglas, wo international Observatorien eingesetzt werden." 🫳🎤

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IAB @iabnews.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

📍Jugendliche, die ihre Ausbildung aufgrund einer anderen attraktiven Ausbildung oder Beschäftigung abbrechen, erzielen in den zehn Jahren nach Abbruch im Durchschnitt etwa die Hälfte des Einkommens vergleichbarer Absolvent*innen. (1/4)

Ein Jugendlicher sitzt mit seinem Smartphone auf seinem Bett. Über das Bild ist ein blauer Textkasten gelegt. Darin steht: "Neu im IAB-Forum: Wann der Ausbildungsabbruch zur Einkommensfalle wird - und wann nicht".

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

My hottest “I have no data to back this up” take is that phones aren’t making young people less happy. What’s making them less happy is living in a world where everyone is having their reality defined by recommendation algorithms that can only care about whether something keeps you watching.

Young adult happiness is falling. Percent of young people who are pretty or very happy has dropped from 88% to 76% over the last 15 years after having held fairly steady between 1980 and 2010

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Alex Patzina @patzinaalex.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Really happy to see this out! I especially enjoyed the collaboration with such great colleagues on this project! @kostermann.bsky.social & @katymorris.bsky.social 🤘 🤘

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

🧵1/ Our first meta-science paper (with 350+ coauthors) is published today in Nature. It presents one of the largest-ever reproducibility projects in economics & political science. Here’s what we found 👇

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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Professors who were visible in the media about Covid, were not the ones doing academic research on it. It’s a typical example that these are two separate worlds, unfortunately. >

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uni-bamberg.de @uni-bamberg.de · 23/03/2026

Gleiche Leistung, ungleiche Chancen: Studie zeigt erstmals umfassend, wie die soziale Herkunft Bildungsungleichheit von der Kita bis zur Uni prägt. Mehr: blog.uni-bamberg.de/forschung/20... 📷Colourbox.de #Bildung #Ungleichheit #Forschung

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Always found the idea that people select into treatment based on expected treatment effects a bit odd and I think I just realised why. /1

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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

It’s been quite some time, but it still isn’t easy to grasp. I worked for Leo as a research assistant and found him to be a great scholar, but much more importantly a very inspiring and kind person. Please consider taking a moment to read this remembrance. www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/polwiss/fors...

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Nachruf auf Leo Ahrens

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Ok now this paper looks amazing. By @jbenmenachem.com and coauthors, forthcoming in Sociological Methods and Research.

"Rethinking Repeatability in Observational Social Science" by Jonathan Ben-Menachem, Ari Galper, and Nic Fishman.

Abstract: Sociology has remained relatively insulated from debates about the ‘replication crisis.’ Heeding calls to consider replication more deeply, we introduce a distinction between two types of research reforms that have emerged in the wake of the crisis: specification-restricting reforms and specification-expanding reforms. Specification-restricting reforms—the more popular of the two—aim to increase the repeatability of research findings by controlling false positives. We show how these reforms’ internal logic breaks down outside of randomized experiments; in observational contexts, they risk enshrining fragile or misspecified models. We further argue that the premise of these reforms is flawed. Replication rates cannot be reduced to the purported prevalence of false positive findings. In their place, we propose a replication framework cen- tered on specification-expanding reforms, stronger incentives for confirmatory research, and meta-analysis. This approach equips sociology to assess the repeatability of findings and build a more cumulative discipline.

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Alex Patzina @patzinaalex.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Heute wurde ein IAB-Kurzbericht veröffentlicht, der zentrale Ergebnisse aus unserem (@mcollischon.bsky.social) Projekt mit der @boeckler-stiftung.bsky.social zum Einfluss der Covid-19-Pandemie auf die Beschäftigungsqualität präsentiert. Den Kurzbericht gibt es hier:

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